We Are the Ship: the Story of Negro League Baseball

We are the ship : the story of Negro League baseball / words and paintings by Kadir Nelson ; foreword by Hank Aaron.-- New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children, c2008.
88 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
ISBN: 9780786808328

1. African American baseball players. 2. Baseball -- United States – History. 3. Negro leagues – History.

Using the voice of an unnamed player Kadir Nelson tells the story of Negro League baseball from its beginnings in the 1920s through its end in 1960. In his oil paintings he gives every player’s portrait a bearing, as if the viewer is looking up at an exquisitely colored monumental statue of the man.